US billionaires don’t pay tax, and our politicians don’t seem bothered | Maureen Tkacik

Fifteen years of tax information on thousands of plutocrats is one of the biggest stories of the decade. And yet ... crickets

American billionaires don't pay taxes, and American politicians are all but ready to send Seal Team Six to assassinate the nameless bureaucrat who let ProPublica in on this fact. Welcome to our political hellscape.

This month, ProPublica revealed that American billionaires essentially do not pay taxes, and within hours the White House had awkwardly promised no fewer than four federal investigations into the identity of the individual who had alerted the news organization to this fact.

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Maureen Tkacik is a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project